With a countdown displaying on your products you create something like a scarcity mentality in people. It can create a feeling of fear, anxiety and maybe desperation just because they see that the price will rise in a specific period.
It also make someone think that s/he has got only one shot right now. Buying a product then relieves much of the pressure (and the feeling of fear).

“What Does It Do?”

The Product Countdown WordPress Plugin is the most powerful scarcity plugin ever created for WooCommerce.
With just a few clicks you can create scarcity-based countdown-timers when a WooCommerce product is on sale.

Add the current sales price or/and the current items in stock in the message besides the counter

Select a fade in position (from top) where the popup-window is then faded-in (for creating attention)

Choose your own background color

Choose your own font color

Custom CSS for every single countdown

Global CSS setting for every countdown

Action that should be performed after the countdown has expired: Send an email or redirect to another page. (Note: there are some limitations when sending an email. Read more in question 8 on the Product Countdown WordPress Plugin FAQ page)

Fixed a problem where the percentage-variable was not calculated in the right way

3.4 (Oct. 9, 2013)

New: Added the possibility to use the ”$difference_in_percent” placeholder in the info text field (which actually shows the difference of the regular and the sales price in percent)

Fixed an issue where the plugin always showed the message “It seems that WooCommerce is not installed…” on multisite installations.

3.3.3 (Oct. 4, 2013)

Fixed an issue on some themes that might occur: when a product is shown on the homepage and it has an activate countdown with the redirect-action set, it might redirect the user directly from the homepage (which is wrong).

3.3.2 (Sept. 27, 2013)

Fixed a problem where the global CSS got quoted (so that background images did not work globally)

3.3.1 (Sept. 26, 2013)

Updated the timer so that it now uses WordPress internal timezone (in most cases this is the server time) instead of the browsers time

3.3 (Sept. 18, 2013)

New: Allow to display the countdown on the front page

3.2.5 (no public version)

Fixed a problem where WordPress throws an deprecated function error while search for a product using the “Product to refer to”-field.

3.2.4 (Aug. 29, 2013)

Updated WP-Buddy Plugin Framework

3.2.3 (Aug. 20, 2013)

Solves an issue where the timezone was not set correctly on some clients (JS)

3.2.2 (Aug. 19, 2013)

Solved an issue where the page load takes a real long time because the plugin permanently checks for updates

3.2.1 (July 19, 2013)

Fixed an issue where the color did not turn when included the countdown with the shortcode

3.2 (July 18, 2013)

Fixes the problem that the countdown cannot remember the product it was attached to (only applied to posts, pages or custom post types)

Updated the WP-Buddy Plugin framework

3.1.6 (July 04, 2013)

Fixes an issue where the metabox-variables could not be saved on certain WordPress installations

3.1.5 (July 03, 2013)

No public version

3.1.4 (July 03, 2013)

Fixed a problem where the countdown always shows up

3.1.3 (July 03, 2013)

Fixed an encoding problem

3.1.2 (June 27, 2013)

Fixed an issue where the plugin did not work when there are subqueries on a page (the query will be reset before showing the content)

3.1.1 (June 26, 2013)

Fixed an issue where the popup did not show up due to a missing HTML-tag

Fixed an issue where the $stock_items variable didn’t work on variable products

3.1 (June 25, 2013)

New: Countdown now refreshes on variable product pages, too.

Fix: Redirect always took place even when there was no sales date defined

3.0.2 (June 24. 2013)

Fix: redirect did not work when countdown has expired

3.0.1 (June 20. 2013)

Fix: Safari browsers were not able to show a different color

Fix: the auto-save functionality of WordPress overwrites the countdown settings

Fix: redirect did not work when countdown has expired

3.0 (June 19. 2013)

New: Global CSS modification available from settings page

New: Doing an action after the countdown has expired: Redirect or send an email (there are some limitation on sending emails. Read question 8 on the FAQ page for more information on this)

New: Fade-in from top

New: Shortcode: Allows you to add the countdown anywhere in your posts

Please note that CodeCanyon sometimes is a little slow when it comes to reviewing updated items. To avoid this and to get updates quicker, please add your purchase code on the settings page of the item. You then get informed automatically when a new update is out and you also get the updated item delivered right within WordPress update process.

Requirements & Limitations

You should have the current, self-hosted WordPress version installed. In case you need a plugin to work with a specific WordPress theme, please ask us before your purchase. This plugin requires: PHP 5.6 or higher running on your webserver and a WordPress Version higher or equal 4.7. You also need at least WooCommerce 3.x installed. This plugin is PHP7-ready.

Please check if your current theme or any of your installed plugins creates Javascript errors on the frontend. If so, please try to solve this issues before installing this plugin.